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Vodafone continues to gain pay TV share in Portugal
Jun 3, 2015 – According to Portugal’s Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), there were 3.404 million subscribers to subscription TV in the country at the end of the first quarter of 2015, 54,000 (+1.6 percent) more than in the previous quarter, and an extra 194,000 (+6.1 percent) compared to the same point in 2014.
News categories: ANACOM, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers, TV Services

4K TV panel shipments to reach 40 million units this year
May 28, 2015 – According to IHS (NYSE: IHS), TV panel unit shipments are expected to grow 5%, year-over-year, reaching a record 265 million units in 2015. Due to strong consumer demand for larger TVs and 4K resolution, TV manufacturers are concerned about possible tight panel supplies.
News categories: IHS, Yoonsung Chung, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV, Worldwide

More than half a million customers for Swisscom TV 2.0
May 28, 2015 – Swisscom has announced that after just 14 months, more than half a million customers are now using its Swisscom TV 2.0 service, boosted particularly by the switch-off of analogue TV in many regions of Switzerland.
News categories: Swisscom, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Switzerland

Connected TV in more than half of U.S. households
May 27, 2015 – Research from Leichtman Research (LRG) has found that 56% of all US households have at least one television set connected to the Internet via a video game system, a smart TV set, a Blu-ray player, and/or a stand-alone device.
News categories: Leichtman Research, Bruce Leichtman, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

IP Video to represent 80% of global IP traffic by 2019
May 27, 2015 – According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast, annual IP traffic will triple between 2014 and 2019 driven by increases in internet users, personal devices and machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, faster broadband speeds, and the adoption of advanced video services.
News categories: Cisco Systems, Doug Webster, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Streaming, TV Everywhere, Worldwide

Pay satellite TV homes to reach 265 million by 2020
May 27, 2015 – The number of pay satellite TV [DBS or DTH] homes will reach 265 million by 2020, up from 203 million at end-2014 and 143 million at end-2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Africa, Asia, Digital TV, Europe, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Subscribers, Worldwide

Dish TV India adds 404,000 subscribers in 1Q 2015; makes profit
May 26, 2015 – Dish TV India Limited (Dishtv) (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported FY2015 results. Dish TV added 404,000 subscribers during the final quarter. FY2015 also saw Dish TV swing to net profit, a first for any DTH company in India.
News categories: Dish TV India, Jawahar Goel, India, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers

U.S. cable performance improves
May 26, 2015 – According to IHS (NYSE: IHS), U.S. cable companies improved on normal quarterly losses in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, losing only 132,900 subscribers since the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2014.
News categories: IHS, Erik Brannon, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

SE Asia's spending on UHD TV up by over 700 percent
May 25, 2015 – Total sales volume of flat panel TV continues to slow down in six key Southeast Asia markets but consumer demand for ultra-high definition (UHD) models has spiked exponentially according to GfK.
News categories: GfK, Gerard Tan, Digital TV, Indonesia, Malaysia, Market Research, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Thailand, Vietnam